12 Women Transform from Victim to Artist in Film

These ladies used the arts to turn their lives back around.

"I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never going to keep me down."

Those might be the lines to a chart-topping song in the late '90s, but the lyric is a strong one to take to heart. And 15 women who were formerly homeless or incarcerated are showing the truth behind those words in the new Nicole Boxer documentary How I Got Over.

How I Got Over

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The women originally performed in a play, "My Soul Look Back in Wonder," for one night at the Kennedy Center, depicting their heartbreaking real-life experiences surrounding issues of rape, drug abuse and other traumas. Boxer, an Oscar-nominated producer for her work on The Invisible War about rape in the military, turned that one-night show into a documentary so anyone can access it through FilmBuff On Demand and iTunes on March 6th. Why? She wanted to capture "this journey on film to further explore the arts as a transformative endeavor....[and begin] a difficult, imperative conversation on homelessness, poverty, and arts education."

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